Django Cast

A blogging/podcasting package based on Django and Wagtail.

Documentation: django-cast.readthedocs.io

Getting Started

• New project: install django-cast, then use the quickstart installation guide and run uv run django-cast-quickstart mysite
• Existing Django project: follow the integration installation guide
• Local development on django-cast itself: see the development guide

Key Features

• Responsive images
• Wagtail as CMS makes it possible for non-technical people to manage the content (blog posts, podcast episodes, ...)
• Podcast support: this package powers python-podcast.de since 2018 using the Podlove Web Player
• Video support - not as sophisticated as image / audio support, but it works 🤗
• Comments via django-contrib-comments with a built-in moderating spam filter
• Code blocks for the Wagtail page editor
• Use Twitter Player Card for links to podcast episode detail pages
• Tags and categories for posts which are then included in the faceted navigation UI (beta feature)
• Frontend themes to customize the look and feel of your site

Deployment

See the deployment documentation.

Upgrade note (0.2.54)

Repository alias names were removed in a breaking cleanup. Use canonical names only.

• QuerysetData -> PostQuerySnapshot
• PostDetailRepository -> PostDetailContext
• BlogIndexRepository -> BlogIndexContext
• FeedRepository -> FeedContext
• EpisodeFeedRepository -> EpisodeFeedContext
• audio_to_dict -> serialize_audio
• video_to_dict -> serialize_video
• image_to_dict -> serialize_image
• blog_to_dict -> serialize_blog
• blog_from_data -> deserialize_blog
• post_to_dict -> serialize_post
• episode_to_dict -> serialize_episode
• transcript_to_dict -> serialize_transcript

Roadmap

• Design improvements for the default theme
• Collaborators for podcast episodes

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please read our contributing docs.